CohabitationIn recent years, there is an increasing at the rate of cohabitation in the society. Cohabitation by definition is two unmarried people living together. In moral values, this does not seem an appropriate situation because of there is no marriage between couples. However, cohabitation is a chance and requirement to establish strong bonds at the relationship. First of all, cohabitation will be a trial period before marriage. We encounter with divorces in our daily lives because of couples who do not know enough about each other. They do not know other's home life or disturbing behaviors during the relationship. These are realized when they get married and start to live together. In addition some marriage decisions are given in 2 or 3 months after they met first. At this period, having an assumption about each other is very difficult. Couples can be aware of other's special life and behaviors in cohabitation. They can make a step to a strong marriage with living together before marriage. Secondly, in cohabitation there will be financial independence and no legal obligations for spouse. When the couples start to live together, they will just share rent, money of pills and basic needs of home such as shopping, cooking and cleaning. Except for these, they will continue to their daily lives like living alone. When woman want to buy new shoes, she does not need to think what her partner will say. She buys them and does not have obligation for her spouse. Couples will be independence their personal needs. At this point, cohabitation is more alluring than marriage. Finally, it is argued that living together without marriage is against moral standards at the society. Although there are many people who think so, I believe that moral values cannot affect how people make a decision. They do not live for moral values. They live for their happiness. If we get married immediately with our partner who we fall in love without information about her/him, a divorce is...

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In the 21 century, marriage is no longer considered as a life binding commitment to one person. A decrease in the number of marriages and an increase in cohabitation both have come in the wake of a large increase in divorce in the last thirty years (David G. Green, 2000). Cohabitation is more popular nowadays because the current generation would like to know whether they are compatible. They also can see the habit and character of their partner by living together. The cohabitation may be defined as an intimate sexual union between two unmarried partners who live together as husband and wife without legally marrying. Although cohabitation before marriage could perhaps bring advantages like provide companionship, financial benefits and marriage be more stable, there are also some disadvantages of cohabitation.
Firstly, opponents argue that the cohabitation provides companionship and compatibility. However, the rate of domestic violence among cohabitation couples are higher. Cohabitation also makes women more vulnerable to abuse ( Stephen, D. and Alysse M. ElHage , 2005). The violent relationship can lead to many negative effects such as alcohol problem, depression, aggression or suicide. Besides, there also have a higher risk of physical, emotional and mental abuse due to the unstable...

...living together. Personally I don’t think children living with unmarried parents are worse off than those living with parents who are married or divorced.
However, while researching this paper, it seems I am in the minority in this thinking. According to an article in the New York Times released in August 2011, couples who have children and live together have increased twelve times the number in 1970. In other words more children have unmarried parents than those who have divorced parents.[i] The National Marriage Project, prepared by folks at the University of Virginia and the Institute for American Values, and includes data from the Census Bureau and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that “the rise of cohabitation is a growing risk for children, and that their lives are less stable in such families.”[ii]
It is interesting to note that 42 percent of children lived with cohabitating parents by the age of twelve compared to 24 percent with divorced parents, according to the National Survey of Family Growth. Class seems to dictate who cohabitates as persons with only high school degrees are more likely to cohabitate than college graduates.[iii]
Cohabitating and having children seem to rise in the 1960s mostly in poor communities; now, according to W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, there are many cohabitating couples in...

...Non Marital Relationship live in partner
Cohabitation is an arrangement whereby two people decide to live together on a long-term or permanent basis in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship. The term is most frequently applied to couples who are not married
Reason for Cohabitation
Today, cohabitation is a common pattern among people in the Western world. People may live together for a number of reasons. These may include wanting to test compatibility or to establish financial security before marrying. It may also be because they are unable to legally marry, due to reasons such as same-sex, some interracial or interreligious marriages are not legal or permitted. Other reasons include living as a way for polygamists or polyamorists to avoid breaking the law, or as a way to avoid the higher income taxes paid by some two-income married couples (in the United States), negative effects on pension payments (among older people), or philosophical opposition to the institution of marriage (that is, seeing little difference between the commitment to live together and the commitment to marriage). Some individuals also may choose cohabitation because they see their relationships as being private and personal matters, and not to be controlled by political, religious or patriarchal institutions.
Some couples prefer cohabitation because it does not legally commit them for an extended period, and...

...Effect of Cohabitation on the Rising Divorce Rate
The rise of the divorce rate seems to be due to the lack of commitment or understanding of love and longevity in a marriage. Cohabitation can be defined as an arrangement whereby two people decide to live together on a long term or permanent basis in an emotionally and /or sexually intimate relationship (Brannon 2008). Cohabitation is seen as the best way to understand a prospective mate in terms of living and financial stability. Also many couples tend to “slip” into this arrangement without much decision making about it being long term, but tend to just “live in the moment”. The cohabitation of couples whether they be heterosexual or homosexual seems to lack the sense of commitment needed to ensure the lasting traits of a marriage. It seems that although newly married couples lack the same principles, the majority of these couples were cohabitating before the final decision to get married. Despite the increase in cohabitation, the divorce rate has increased rapidly due to the lack of commitment and understanding between the two partners. The difference in views between men and women may be due to the biological differences discovered in prenatal development. The psychological aspect creates the lack of commitment due to loss of financial and emotional stability during cohabitation and thought of future marriage...

...1. Introduction
Cohabitation, in the basic meaning, is a physical and emotional relationship between two opposite-sex inmates involves living together without any legal sanction. Many people believe that cohabitation is definitely popular to the youngsters only; however, this can happen in the older ones as well. Cohabitation appeared a long time ago and quickly became common in the USA and other Western countries. Over the last two decades, a dramatic increase in the number of cohabiting couples has been witnessed. As Bumpass and Lu reported, “the proportion of all first unions (including both marriages and cohabitations) that begin as cohabitations rose from 46% for unions formed between 1980 and 1984 to almost 60% for those formed between 1990 and 1994”, (cited in Smock 2000). Because cohabitation has the possibility of existing for a long period of time, it is not too surprising to know that up to 35% of couples who never marry have their own children like a “real family” (Smoke 2000).
The popularity of cohabitation is affecting many countries in a lot of regions, and Asia is not an exception. The young Asian people, especially college students, are influenced much by Western culture, which lead to the shift of attitude towards a lot of aspects of life involving cohabitation: they tend to be more acceptable with living without marriage. However, it...

...Did you know that over half of all first marriages are now preceded by living together compared to virtually none 50 years ago? The number of unmarried couples living together increased tenfold from 1960 to 2000. The number of unmarried couples living together increased 72% between 1990 and 2000. By the year 2010, if the present trend continues, there will be 7 married couples for every cohabiting couple. (Cohabitation Facts, "Cohabitation - It's Training for Divorce”- Chuck Colson (1995). Here are some statistics on cohabitating couples. These numbers show that as times go on more and more people will be living together before marriage. What is your opinion on cohabitation before marriage? Is this something that you see yourself doing in the future?
Barbara Markey (1999) notes three groups of cohabiters; those headed toward marriage, those cohabiting as a temporary alternative, and those cohabiting as a permanent alternative to marriage. Roland Johnson, a university sociologist, describes four categories of cohabiters. Theses sum up the vast majority of cohabitating relationships found among college-age individuals. They are: Linus Blanket, Emancipation, Convenience and Testing Relationships (Johnson 1996). A brief description of each is:
1. Linus Blanket Relationship. (Sense of Security)
This type of cohabiting relationship is based on the overpowering need to be involved with somebody. The desire to be loved is so...

...Presentation Co-Habition 15’
I. Intro (Hưng):
1. Introduce the group
2. What is Cohabittion?
Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotionally and/or sexually intimate one, on a long-term or permanent basis.
II. Body (Nhàn, Hạc, Cúc, Trí):
1. Advantages (Nhàn, Trí)
i. Protesting the Institution of Marriage
* Despite religious, cultural and legal biases against non-traditional unions, more and more Americans are accepting of unions between two men or two women. In fact, according to an April 2011 CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll, 51 percent of Americans think gays and lesbians should have the same legal rights as married men and women. Some heterosexual couples choose to protest the heterosexist bias of the institution of marriage by refusing to wed until all couples are permitted to wed. Others reject the institution of marriage altogether, believing that it privileges patriarchal values. For people with ethical objects to marriage or to legislation authorizing only one type of marriage, cohabitation is an alternative.
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ii. Financial Benefits
* Cohabitation is financially advantageous if the two people who are cohabitating...

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The Negative Effects of Cohabitation
Keeping with American tradition, the American dream can be defined as finding your one true love, moving into a big house with a white picket fence, a big yard, kids, pets, and all that jazz that accompanies. Before a couple can move forward to fulfilling the, “American dream,” they need to test the waters with their partner. Today this is known as cohabitation, or moving in with one another before marriage. Today, there are 7.5 million couples that are currently participating in a cohabitating arrangement. According to Meg Jay, a clinical Psychologist, that number has increased exponentially from its 1960 mark of 450,000 couples that cohabit with one another. In her article, “The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage,” Jay writes several reasons as to why more couples are willing to move in with one another before marriage. “This Shift has been attributed to the sexual revolution and the availability of birth control, and in our current economy, sharing the bills makes cohabiting appealing,” (Jay). Couples cohabit with one another to gauge if they are truly capable of living with one another for the rest of their lives. However, contrary to what meets the eye, initially, cohabitation actually creates an adverse effect to its intended purpose. Cohabitation leads many prospecting couples and actual cohabiting families down a long, dark road of unhappiness and heartbreak.
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